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Barry Whyte is a 'Master Inventor' working in the Systems Group. Now based in Auckland New Zealand, Barry is working for the IBM ATS team covering Storage Virtualization for the AP region. Previously Barry was based in IBM Hursley, UK. Barry primarly works on the IBM SAN Volume Controller and Storwize family of virtual disk systems. Barry graduated from The University of Glasgow in 1996 with a B.Sc (Hons) in Computing Science. In his 20 years at IBM he has also worked on the successful Serial Storage Architecture (SSA) and the IBM DS8000 range. Barry joined the SVC development team soon after its inception and has held many positions before taking on his long running role as performance architect. In 2015 Barry moved to New Zealand, but maintains a part-time working role for the Hursley team working as a performance consultant. Outside of work, Barry enjoys playing golf and all things to do with Rotary Engines. All posts on this blog are (c) Copyright International Business Machines 2007-2016 - reproduction without prior approval is prohibited.

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Two posts in one week. Doing well. I set one of my resolutions this year to post at least once a week – hence my new numbering scheme. Maybe I’ll use the fact that 2010-2.2 and further double posts count for the odd week I may miss :) Benchmarketing. It’s a dodgy term, and even dodgier maths. We... [Continue Reading]

As this is my last day in the office until the new year, I thought I'd take a few minute to quickly wish all my readers all the best over the Festive season. I've already set one of my new year resolutions to make time to blog more - so all being well, I'll be more active on here next year,... [Continue Reading]

The kids very kindly passed on their latest 'bring-home' from school - a stinking cold! Been feeling pretty rotten since I got back
from SNWE in Frankfurt a couple of weeks back - so hopefully I didn't pass it on to anyone I met there! Was a great couple of days,
thanks to everyone that came... [Continue Reading]

So far I have concentrated on the hardware side of the new SVC 5.1 release, thats probably because after
the work I did with IBM Almaden Research last year on Project Quicksilver, I became the architect for
the sub-SVC project to add SSD support to SVC. The tecnology demo set the scene and... [Continue Reading]

My posts from last week have been generating a huge amount of interest, with customers both existing an prospective seeing that what we have done with SVC 5.1 and our intergrated SSD support is much more of a game changer than EMC's "bolt them into the array" approach. While IBM has the same... [Continue Reading]

This is a bit of an opus I'm afraid, but I've had my hands tied for so long in what I could / couldn't say so think of this as a catch up for my last 6 months of sporadic posting! Please do try to make it to the end, I'm covering a lot here! In my last post I covered whats coming with SVC 5.1 at a... [Continue Reading]

I've been waiting for what seems like far too long for this series of posts. The development and test teams have been working flat out for the last year to bring SVC 5.1 to market. Today IBM issued a press release detailing a little of whats coming next month with SVC release 5 software, the new... [Continue Reading]

IBM System Storage Technical User Group Webinar IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) Implementation Best Practices Join us for a Webinar on October 14 Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/988779121 You are invited to attend this upcoming... [Continue Reading]

I'm sure more than a few of you will know what I mean when I say I've been in "PowerPoint Hell" recently... With various internal executive visits, updates on where we are, where we are going and technical discussion points, its always amusing how much time a decent "slide" takes... [Continue Reading]

I find I start so many posts these days describing how busy I've been as an excuse to why my post
frequency has been lower than normal. This has to have been a new record as I spotted my last post was over a
month ago. This time however I do have a much better excuse, two weeks time off away... [Continue Reading]

I, like a lot of you that take the time out of your lives to read blog ramblings, you probably have your top 3 or 4 authors that you will read no matter what they say - maybe the next 10 that you read just the title, and based on the grab line, may or may not read, then the others that may simply... [Continue Reading]

NTTRA , short for "international trade," was formed in 2000 for the purpose of providing a multi-carrier e-commerce platform for the booking and documentation of ocean containerized shipping. Based in New Jersey but with sales and support offices all over the globe, INTTRA serves 30 of the... [Continue Reading]

Seems like a lot of water, in the case of Farley and Burke - a lot of smack ups - but it feels like smack downs to me... ;) has gone under the bridge. Looking back at my first part work, some 24 months ago, it would look like Invista was still maybe being banded about as a 'serious' option, and many... [Continue Reading]

Tony Pearson has posted a great set of FAQ questions that were answered during a session at last weeks IBM's 2009 Storage Symposium. For any current or prospective SVC users, its worth a read, and it got me thinking I haven't had one of my Q&A posts for a while.. So here is you chance. If its... [Continue Reading]

Since my blog was moved from the old Developerworks site into the myDeveloperWorks framework I've been trying to get some widgets back and reset the theme. It seemed like beyond the scope of what the interface the new framework provides... until I found the hidden menu that appears when you change... [Continue Reading]